The study looked at 2475 patients, age 18 and up, from 11 psychiatric hospitals and 15 psychosocial care outpatient centers in Brazil. Participants in the study were interviewed about their experiences of sexual violence, which those conducting the survey defined as being forced to have unwanted sexual relations or having any kind of abuse of a sexual nature against their will.

Not surprisingly, women reported a majority of those assaults came from someone they knew. The same was true for men, though at a slightly lower rates.

The factors that contributed to the incidents of sexual violence underscore the challenges men and women living with mental illness face on a daily basis. Among women, factors independently associated with sexual violence included younger age (18-40 years), living alone, a history of homelessness, previous psychiatric hospitalization, a history of lifetime sexual diseases, a diagnosis of depression or schizophrenia/psychosis, a sexual “debut” age of less than 16 years, a lifetime of irregular condom use, and receiving or being offered money for sex. Among men, younger age (18-40 years), previous psychiatric hospitalization, age at first hospitalization of less than 18 years, lifetime use of marijuana or cocaine, a diagnosis of depression or schizophrenia/other psychosis, and receiving or being offered money for sex were independently associated with sexual violence.

The take away from a study like this is that sexual violence is an epidemic across the world and that mental illness is one factor that increases the likelihood of experiencing sexual violence in a person’s lifetime. That means that sexual violence should be treated as a public health epidemic and not just a crime.

Just as we try to assign our vulnerable children a 'safe person' to seek out for help...........a 'safe person' should be assigned by the psychiatric clinic diagnosing a person as mentally ill.
That is..........in a perfect world.

Rape is rape no matter what. It doesnt matter if she was wearing clothing on almost all exposed skin or nothing at all its rape and it is MORALLY wrong and psychologically wounding more than our hideous rape culture would like to admit.

Mental illness is a state of mind. The leader of the 1930s surrealist movement, Andre Breton who studied psychiatry in Europe wrote that psychiatrists should be shot dead. Andre Breton was against slavery and helped Haiti win independence from France. Psychiatrists do seem to promote a system of slavery such as zombism through medication and abuse of patients. In the 19th century a women was foced into a mental institution for putting a wantad in a newspaper for a husband. Today, this is common. Those against psychiatry say psychiatrists target artists, mathematicians, women, women abused by men, women with children, children, indigenous people, and sexually adventurous people--free spririts. Usually, psychiatrists further abuse their patients to make more money on them. Psychiatry dates back to Ancient Egypt as the "Cult of Osiris" (the third eye) before going to Ancient Greece and establishing itself as a medical profression. It probably was originally part of Ancient Egypt's ruthless military. It probably has done some good somewhere, but it appears to cause many more casualties than successes.